The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

I’m just going to quit working and let the government take care of me…

@Shane: You know, it’s funny; I never heard a liberal in my life seriously say he’d prefer to relax on government benefits and do nothing. Usually, it’s more like “those women are raising children on their own, we should support them,” or “medical care is so expensive that young people are pulling teeth out of their heads with pliers rather than pay thousands in medical bills,” or “maybe we ought to regulate the financial sector…”
It’s always folks with a right lean who seem to be so terrified of this prospect. It’s like they’re afraid that if it isn’t necessary to struggle viciously, all the time, to get such basics as “the ability to go to the doctor,” maybe… they’d go soft?

I don’t know about the accuracy or substance of this charge-but I will say that getting health care reform passed would be worth the money. So we leave Iraq 8 hours earlier. That should cover it.

here … let me fix that for you T —
Usually, it’s more like “those women are raising children on their own, somebody else need to be taxed more to support them,” or “medical care is so expensive that young people are pulling teeth out of their heads with pliers rather than pay thousands in medical bills, so somebody else needs to be taxed to support them because they can figure out how to budget and insure their car, but not their own body” or “maybe we ought to regulate the financial sector…because only some people are making money in it and people who can’t read contracts or calculate risks can’t figure out how to do it”
There … that’s more accurate…..

Hope and change? More like, “Politics as usual”. Nothing to see here, People, move along.

So I ask, what’s new about this story except the year and then name? Our corrupt Federal govt. has done this for a looonngg time. We’re way past due in refreshing the tree of Liberty.

jwh539, you could not be more wrong. It is not enough that a major disaster be declared somewhere in a state in order to trip the boost in funding, it requires that the major disaster be declared and that it is determined that “EVERY county or parish in the State warrant individual and public assistance or public assistance from the Federal Government under such Act.” How many times has that happened in the past 7 years? Certainly not 411 times.

All those that want federal government to do something for them, will be crying when all is said and done.
That is unless you are a congress man or woman.
They know SS and Government is broke. They need to do a little zig zag before that rooste comes home to nest.
They have about 4 years to get her done.

Political payoffs. The face of Change in Washington.

“those women are raising children on their own, we should support them,” or “medical care is so expensive that young people are pulling teeth out of their heads with pliers rather than pay thousands in medical bills,” or “maybe we ought to regulate the financial sector…”
You know, the problem is, when you say “we”, you speak for me. And I don’t buy into any of your sob-story crap. So don’t impinge upon my freedoms in the name of a cause I don’t believe in. Fund it yourself.

If ABC had bothered to do a decent job of reporting, they would have described how the federal Medicare/Medicade contribution is calculated from a formula which uses resident income. As a result of the compensation payments for Katrina storm damage, Louisiana showed higher income growth than any other state, which means that our portion of the Medicare pie increased sharply. Of course, this “income” was really “insurance proceeds” intended to help people repair damage done when the federal levees failed. So this money is not a windfall.

I am in the business of dealing with the FEDs in disasters. In the last 5 years we have had as many disasters in our state. The key word is “public assistance” that means individuals recieve compensation. It is VERY difficult and VERY rare for the type of disasters we have, to affect sufficient individuals to qualify for individual assistance. Most money goes to repair roads, bridges,and assit local governments ect not individuals. This language is clearly written to conceal that most “average” disasters have litte or no public assistance. Make no mistake Lousiana would qualify but rarely in smaller States. This clearly is meant to benefit Louisana not most folks who suffer a disaster.

I’m here in Louisiana. And if she votes yes on this, she will not be re-elected. you have my word. I think she knows this. She’s being bombarded by calls in this most decidedly “red” state. Don’t put her in the yes column just yet. She really, reeeeeeeeeally likes her job.

Multi-Purpose Flower said: “The government can’t take care of everybody.”
WHAT KIND OF LIBERAL TRAITOR ARE YOU???
“Tax the rich; feed the poor,
till there are no rich no more.”
Die little flower, for not understanding Ten Years After, DIE.

As if the federal government hasn’t already given enough to the State of Louisiana since Katrina. I expect the Senator will be getting blitzed by phone calls now that this bribe has been exposed.
Obama – Psalm 109:8

After Katrina the entire states of LA, MS, AL, and FL were declared disaster areas. So…….do we all get money down here on the Gulf Coast? I’m rich!

I don’t think this is near enough to buy Landreau’s vote. People in Louisiana are really against this bill. If she votes for it there have to be much bigger goodies than this. I don’t know what they are but this won’t do it.
She won’t get re-elected voting for this and she knows it. Mary is no dummy.

Louisiana just hit the third or fourth largest naturral gas strike in the country. All that money is going to go to get her out of office now that she supports Socialism. Goodbye Landrieu.
My guess is her family gets a 10% finder’s fee. Her soul for $10,000,000 for a democrat, that is good math. Most of them sell out for a lot less than that. She got more than she is worth, just our children are the ones paying her. Seems kind of unfair for our children, really. The bright side is, with all these taxes owed maybe Democrats will start being Pro-Life for more Taxpayers?

More government handouts, nothing for job creation. Another $100 million down the toilet.
To enigmaforever, Reid, Pelosi and Obama will make that list long before Landrieu will.

100 million for a vote. How many more 100 million payoffs are in the bill? This is why I don’t want government run healthcare. Government needs to stop bribing officials to get votes. If the common citizen did this, theu would be in jail.

Handing out medical care (specialists, equipment, funding etc) in pork spending bills will be the norm under a government plan.
Big bucks for the districts of a few powerful congressmen, crumbs for the rest of us.
Do we really want health care wheeling and dealing like it was roads and bridges?

If this bill is soooo wonderful why do they have to bribe a DEMOCRAT senator to sign on to it? You morons that want the free lunch are willing to take the maggot infested ham sandwich thats going to kill you rather than do something like work a little and pay for a fresh hamburger.

they are both crooks one to take a bribe the other to give it. this abomanition of a so called health bill must be killed

Lets see if I understand – they are going to use $100 million of taxpayer money to bribe this woman to vote for a bill that the majority of taxpayers do not want.
Great.

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take it all away.

Good point. Socialist states are vibrant with industry. Paradises like Michigan (1 state recession during biggest boom) and California (verge of bankruptcy) to Louisiana and New Orleans where hundreds of school buses flooded while the poor drowned.
Socialist states always have good intentions but the results speak for themselves.
By the way this is the worst recession since JIMMY CARTER – another socialist failure.
Bush inherited the dot com crash + recession, trillions of dollars of losses to the stock market and a second recession caused by 9/11 yet turned it around in only a few years.
We’ll be at 24% mortgage interest, gas lines, double digit inflation (completed) by the time Obama is done.

“Actually, if you look at the numbers from the Tax Foundation the majority of strong Red states are dependent upon Federal tax dollars collected/redistributed from Blue states – whose ‘wasteful socialist programs’ oddly correlate well with modern, vibrant industries that bring in a lot of federal tax revenue.”
Its really just a population issue. More people more tax revenue. The states most like the country the progressives want to eventually build are going broke.

I am from Louisiana and we will vote her out if she votes for this bill.

Is it not becoming very obvious that the unspent “stimulus money” is being earmarked to purchase the votes of senators and congressmen to pay off pork barrel projects for their home districts?
WAKE UP FELLOW AMERICANS!
We are being conned, played & huckstered. Our children and grandchildren will pay the price long after we are gone…

I just don’t get why people have so much trust in government. Example after example they waste our money. Dependancy and disincentive lies in their wake. The whole thing is a power grab by a bunch of out of touch, way too self important millionaire politicians who think you are too stupid to fend for yourselves and you need them. Sheep.

Hopefully ABC won’t be the only one picking up on this… Who ever thought a Senator in La. could be bought off? Hey wasn’t the only Republican to support the House bill from La. as well – they must enjoy the handouts Obama is throwing around!
Someone has to question the actual support for this reform if the only way it will or can be passed is with added pork? If the reform is so needed, why is not one supporting it on face value. I bet La. is not the only one to benefit in this deal!

I am so sick and tired of the left being so generous with other people’s money. What is so wrong with working hard and providing for oneself? Our forefathers built this country with that creed why now do the left believe that a work ethic is such a bad thing? We are not entitled to receive everything that we want. Quit trying to create a nanny state.IThe left wants to expand it’s base (Which happens to be made up of the freeloaders with their hand out)so if they make everyone dependent upon the government their base will expand. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for YOURSELF.

So everyone would like the same organization (the federal gov’t) that has bankrupted Medicare, Medicaid, social security, the post office etc… and has miss allocated 98 billion dollars of the tax payers to allocate and distribute our health care. At least the health insurance companies have not essentially lost 98 billion dollars or gone into debt. The health care system needs to be fixed but putting in the gov’t hands is not the right move. How about we try to get rid of the anit-trust practices health insurances companies engage in on a state level and maybe some tort reform to lessen mal-practice insurance among may other things. But why would that ever happen with special interest guiding our policies makers decisions.

Why not? She’s from LOUISIANA, home of such upstanding politicians like Huey Long and Edwin Edwards. Why shouldn’t she get hers as well? Selling out the country for some ‘bacon’ is the American (Congressional) way!

“political bribes. SO the bill doesn’t warrant support unless there is a payoff. I hope the people of LA. vote her out.”
Voting her out isn’t enough….

Healthcare bought for the fine people of the state that brought you William Jefferson.

God forbid that stupid people CHOOSE to build and live in a FLOOD PLAIN. How many times do we have to rebuild? How many could have left and didn’t? I hate what happens sometimes but where the hell does PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY play into NOLA’s problems? Did the taxpayers tell them they had to live there? Did the Corp of Engineers issue repeated concerns? Were they ignored by the NOLA beggars?

Here’s an idea. How about EVERY bill that is going to be “pushed through” be put to a vote by the American people instead. I wouldn’t mind going to a voting station once a month, once a week, or whatever it takes to at least get a vote in. If the politicians want to buy each other off, knock yourself out, but in the end WE get to vote on the bill.
Just put the bill on the internet for all to see (in layman’s terms, please). WE get the time to read it, WE get the time to digest it, WE get the opportunity to vote on it. No more partisanship, no more buy-offs, no more foot dragging, no more pork projects (since WE will get to see them included in the bill before WE vote). WE are the ones footing the bill for all this legislation, but WE don’t have a voice. And please don’t say we have representatives in Congress for us…they don’t give a rat’s behind about us. To them, it’s politics, plain and simple. To US, it’s jobs, the economy, healthcare, our livelihoods. To THEM, it’s another round in their cushy Washington DC chair. How nice to know somebody cares, huh?

The best congress money can buy!
Solutions:
1. Fire incumbents
2. Term Limits
3. Prosecute ANY AND ALL misuse of taxpayer funds.
4. Indict for treason any action by Congressmen or office holders or their collective staff, that aid and abet our sworn enemies.
5. Constitutional Convention reforming our tax structure to eliminate the IRS and replace it with the Fair Tax (Defund Congress).

Unless the democrats lose on of the 3
departments of Government, the Presidency, the House of Pelosi or
the Senate of Reid this country
is gonna become a Socialist country.

Democrats will become the minority party for years to come if they continue to defy the american public and push for health care reform.

Just to further correct the liberal:
When all federal funding and all expenditures by the federal government and private citizens are compared to what state government and state residents contribute, blue states come out WAY AHEAD. The study you cite is meritless as it picks and chooses what type of funding and what type of taxes to count.
As to the comment that liberals want to help and conservatives do not, this is absurd. Every study of charitable giving shows that red states give substantially more than blue states, that self-described conservatives give far more than liberals.
While conservatives want to help with their own money and time, liberals want to help with someone else’s money or time. Liberals do not voluntarily pay more taxes (like conservatives voluntarily giving more to charity), they want to force others to donate to their moral causes through taxes, and then act smug and self-righteous because they are willing to force others under threat of imprisonment to donate to their causes.

Mary Landrieu proves the point that the nature of Democrats is corruption. Either they vote dead people, get Acorn to pad the voter rolls, let Illegals vote, or encourage multiple votes per voter. They are all on the take. Anything for power.

Socialism, the enemy of self reliance. Of all the good most of us were raised to believe in, the wants of the lazy, the ignorant, the wickend and morally corrupt shall outwiegh your virtues and steal what was rightfully yours. Folks this is totally un-american!!!!

let the revolution begin

How’s that hope and change workin’ for ya?
Looks like a lot of political payoffs to me… aka The Usual!
Let’s giver the OTHER Libs a try… Libertarians. At least they give a #### about the Constitution and freedom.

If LA wasn’t run by corrupt politicians (99.99% Democrats) for the last 60 years, they would not be in this situation.
And just like Mayor Nagin, they’ll vote ‘em back in.

Lets all move to Louisiana, not get jobs and let Harry and Mary care for us 100%

Landrieu is a political pig.

“T”: The reason for that is it’s expensive to live in places like New York, etc… so you have to make more money. Ergo, higher taxes.
If New York, et al, ran themselves like more conservative states and cities such as Nashville, Jacksonville, Austin, etc…. the cost of living would be MUCH LESS… therefore, you’d have to make less $ to live, and you’d pay less in taxes. DUH!
I thought you were a spread the wealth kind of guy…. no?

There is a famous exchange, oft-quoted, that ends with “Madam, we have already established what you are; we are now simply negotiating your price.”

I wonder how much of the 100 mil will end up in Landrieu’s pockets. She has deep ones, don’t you know, just like her damned Daddy, Moon.

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“those women are raising children on their own, we should support them,” or “medical care is so expensive that young people are pulling teeth out of their heads with pliers rather than pay thousands in medical bills,” or “maybe we ought to regulate the financial sector…”
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You know what… we all want to help. But that’s what charity is for. Government MANDATED charity is nothing but a money grab, always rife with fraud, always inefficient, and almost always leading to a bankrupt and perpetually money-sucking and tax-increasing lesion on the face of society.
Let me keep my own money and I’ll help in my own way.
BTW, the problem with health care is the COST of services, not the availability of coverage. The fact that you can’t even get in to see a doctor for so much as an ear exam in a major city if you don’t have insurance… that is the problem. Insurance needs to be gutted so it only covers emergency and catastrophic care, much like homeowner’s insurance. Then costs will come back down to earth and I can go get a blood test at my doctor for $75 and not need insurance to cover it.
Why is no one addressing this very simple problem?

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

For 100 million she will condemn us and our children to generations of trillions in debt. Just so she can keep HER job. Short term gains for long term misery.
It is time for a little revolution.

Say people, I have something. Will this health care reform be forced upon the leaders? Those in the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government. If they don’t want it why do we?

You guys are getting offpoint. This article is about buying a vote for passage of this bill, which has nothing to do with healthcare. Reids billdiors nothing but funnel billions of dollars to the federal Gov. Actual “healthcare” doesn’t even start happening until 2013, but we start paying for it right away. People may want health care reform, but this bill is not it not by a long shot. Can someone here explain to me how something that costs 1trillion dollars lowers the cost of anything?

I’m sure more payoffs are hidden in the bill, as well as outside of the bill. Sneaky.
Lib Bashing

Would that make Mary Landrieu a prostitute of sorts?

Tip of the iceberg. This is only 1 or 2 pages of this monstrosity depending on font size. What’s hiding in the other 2073 pages? ? In less than 12 months this country has moved closer to the abyss of complete socialism than ever in history. 2010 is our last chance. Make the best of it. Anybody who votes for this travesty must be thrown from office.

We are being transformed into a communist state because of people wanting handouts and power. I will refuse and resist. Dark Days come to our shores if this corruption and madness persists.

I’m certain this is the HOPE and CHANGE you Obama voters were looking for….

democrats will steal from the health bill, amounts more than some countries are worth. more American taxpayers will be unable to to get buy after paying for inflated healthcare and related taxes, and will end up on some sort of public assistance. eventually, the middle class will be the poor class, and the wealthy elites in DC will be in power for life.

Amazing – liberals justify political bribery. Yes. All Bush’s fault. You people have no idea who you voted for. Socialism is legalized stealing – you liberals want other people to support you. Move to France if you want that.

More unethical government from the OBowMao regime.

do you have any idea how much of my tax money the previous administration sent to New Orleans??? It’s sickening!!! MS pulled themselves up withour all the whining and crying I hear from LA!!

Hope and change we can believe in…what a farce!

Thanks Jonathan. You have done us all a great service by ferreting this out.

This is an outrage. Backroom strong arm politics. The state of LA is getting federal help and got help from the Bush administration. Its the numb nut leaders that caused this state to be where it is. Ms Landrieu you were not sent to Washington to play God!

ah stop the whining. The insurance and phar industries spending over one milion per day to stop health care. And Liberman, funded by insurance may veto? they are all bought: both the GOP and the Dems…grow up. That is the way the gamer is played in America. How do you think congress folks vote?
Who is funding the anti-bill?

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid represent everything that is WRONG with the modern Democratic Party. They cater to the liberal elitists who fund the party and only offer bones of welfare along with inspiring rhetoric to the minorities and centrists who represent their largest voting block.

Its all about payoffs and consolidating power.
“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.” – Ben Franklin

Huey Long would be proud!!!

ISN’T THERE A PROVISION IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT PROHIBITS A QUIT-FOR-QUO?
THERE CAN BE MADE A CASE THAT THIS IS EXACTLY THAT BUT MAY BE EVEN MORE AMUSING WILL BE A DEBATE IN THE SENATE ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXTRA-TWO-PAGES, WHY IT IS EXACTLY 7 YEARS AND NOT 5 YEARS ETC.ETC.
THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL SINCE EITHER THEY HAVE TO DROP IT OR REID WILL BE EXPOSED AS BRIBING SENATORS.

Hey, come on out here to California. We have a 128 BILLION Dollar budget. We don’t have a war here. We pay 60 Billion a year to entitlement programs. You see, it doesn’t matter if there’s a war or hurricane or whatever, there’s a load in this country who can’t get off their big fat #### and carry themselves. Show me the rule where I have to pay for you because you don’t feel like doing it yourself. Shut-up, get off your butts and work.

The Republic is pretty much dead.

I will personally make sure she never get elected dog catcher in LA..COUNT ON IT!

I’m just going to quit working and let the government take care of me…
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Who is John Galt?

She got Federal money for her state and her constituents. Isn’t that what you’d want in a representative? That’s what all the Red states do…take take take and then pretend they are ‘conservative’. Time for Red State Socialism to come to an end.

Can I spit now?

The Public Option is going to be run as an insurance company for people that need the insurance. Individuals will pay for it (premiums) and receive health benefits. Hopefully more people will be covered because it will have reasonable rates that will compete with the established insurance companies like Blue Cross and Humana.

Health care reform bill should be passed. Everyone deserve basic health care. It should not be a privilage for the rich only.

JAxparrothead
“@Shane: You know, it’s funny; I never heard a liberal in my life seriously say he’d prefer to relax on government benefits and do nothing.”
Dear Jax – you poor blind person-
Do you honestly thing we pay the huge and demoralizing level of taxes we do in order to support a bunch of conservatives?
Do you think that if we could look into the voting booths as our people who are on the public dole are voting we would see them voting for republicans?
Do you believe in the tooth fairy or that cats and mice should live in harmony together?
It is very simple – the government taxes some of us to death – so we cannot achieve our life goals or attain the happiness we pursue. Then it uses the money it stole from us to buy votes.
Do you think this is a sustainable policy? Read Alexis de Toqueville.

Well bravo Mary! You actually brokered a deal wherein your constituents will benefit from fed funds. That’s politics…yep.
The flip side is all the pork the other blue dog representatives will lose for their respective states. And that will enrage the constitutents come election day.

Mary——WHY!!!!!!!! You sold us out!!! We will REMEMBER!

because of the close door meetings, i do
because of the close door meetings, how xcan we put trust in our current legislators.

WHY does legal language have to be so exaggerated, excessive,exorbitant, if not to hide what should be known to those who Need to Know. Things that are written so obtusely are meant to confuse, and are written in Legalese (a language that Lawyers are taught in LAW school). Those of us who still speak the “King’s English” do not want to admit to misunderstanding, and not knowing how to say “Nay” or Hey! in that language, so we continue to accept
whatever is translated to us by the persuaders, who wrote the obtuse language in the first place. DUH! No wonder there is so much confusion, the whole Health thing is written in a foreign language.

Add the name Barack Obama to your list of traitors to the Nation and Constitution. His attempts to create a socialist government and society, his attempts to severely weaken American sovereignty by aggressively pushing inclusion in a 190-country wealth grab in Copenhagen, his continuing commentary on how awful America is, his Chicago style bullying of the Senator from Nebraska with the threat to CLOSE THE STRATEGIC COMMAND BASE in return for a illegal health care vote, and his illegal use of executive privilege and government power to intrude into the operations of lawfully incorporated corporations (GM, AIG, etc.) can all rightly be considered treasonous. He swore to defend and uphold the Constitution. He is now trying to un-do the Constitution right before the eyes of the fools who thought it would be “cool”, “trendy”, and “au courant” to vote for him.
Same is true for the Senators and Congressman throwing the United States and its citizens into socialist hell with an economy to match with the health care bill (illegal under the Constitution) and the so-called “Climate” bill (illegal under the Constitution).
“You propose to establish a social order based on the following tenets: that you’re incompetent to run your own life, but competent to run the lives of others-that you’re unfit to exist in freedom, but fit to become an omnipotent ruler-that you’re unable to earn your living by the use of your own intelligence, but able to judge politicians and to vote them into jobs of total power over arts you have never seen, over sciences you have never studied, over achievements of which you have no knowledge, over the gigantic industries where you, by your own definition of your capacity, would be unable successfully to fill the job of assistant greaser.”
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live my life for another man, nor ask any man to live his for me.

I agree with the “traitors” post previous to mine, and I’m already driving around with a huge sticker I got from CafePress that says, “RE-ELECT NO-ONE!”
Records of WORST ATTENDANCE and these shameful bills do not warrant anyone to elect these self absorbed EGO TRIP morons to another term, EVER AGAIN!

Do you all who support this so called health care bill also support additional taxes to pay for it? Do you also favor your tax dollars to pay for abortions? Do you also favor your tax dollars to be used for bribes? If you do then vote for it and as for me lying, cheating, stealing is still sin and always will be and so is murder. May God bless…

Some good comments, and some tiring ones, already made. I see the situation as this… do I like Democratic senators holding their vote until their state gets a tidy agreement, no… and I wouldn’t support such senators for doing so. However, if Obama needs to use such tactics because of Republican short-sightedness and not suitably caring about the millions of uninsured people in America, then fair play to him. I’d do exactly the same. I’d improve the standard of everyone’s healthcare, and then you can have your little crying session on how it was done. The person being able to get a hip replacement finally is not going to give a damn about $100 million given to Lousiana, when it should’ve received ten times that amount by the prior administration. Special money for asbestosis affected areas, doesn’t sound bad either. If it were $2million for a telescope again, I’d understand… but… it’s not.

Surprise !The Health Care Reform Act contains “earmarks”.Will sombody explain to this writer why these “earmarks” are any worse than $1 Billion +(which is tax deductible)
spent by lobbyists on behalf of the Insurance industry ;AHA hospital industry and AMA medical associations
We are all pigs at the trough!;this time the citizens get a bigger piece of the pie
That’s the untidy way democracy works;its too bad it was not practiced by the FED and the SEC during the financial collapse of the banks and AIG
Frank L
Scottsdale AZ

Any one person that thinks that all this is going to save us any money is dead wrong. Math is not 1-1=100
You can not tell the normal person that spending trillions of dollars on health care is going to save the country money. Thats like saying if you go eat every night because you dont buy food at the store your saving money. Wake up america this is the biggest scam of my life time!

“Sickofthis”…you left Bush off that traitor list.
…and “Shane”, Interesting to find that your inclination in times of adversity is to be lazy. I like that! When the times get tough, the tough get lazy!
Health care is a right not a privilege for the well off who can afford it.
All this whining about “regulating” the finance scammers? Why? Don’t people think they “earned” their money?…Oh, but predatory Insurance Corporation, that has billions to spend advertising and lobbying to get their way, that prey and profit on the pain and suffering of our physical destiny do?
So, it’s jealousy of the money scammers but, “all good” for the extorters?
That’s typical right wing jealousy of those who made it and contempt for those who didn’t…the worst kind of petty human nature.
P

I feel hopey changey all up my leg … Go BO go man go ….

Well I think I’ll just leave till the dust settles.

Bottom line: this is a $100 million dollar bribe. Why does the bill spend two pages on language that applies to only one state? Because the author are trying to disguise the fact that this is a bribe.
Hooray for change.

Don’t fall for it Mary. This senate version isn’t worth the paper it’s written on (that *is* a lot of paper). Better forget her and Joe (Lieberman), and Nebraska’s just due and just vote up the house version with the public option. The senate is a bunch of crooks.

JaxParrothead,
That’s also a misconception. The fact is states like the People’s republic of California are broke and begging the Federal Government for Money. It’s true the blue states generate lots of money, but they also have bloated liberal governments that can’t stop passing laws and spending money, so they have to look to every state for more money to waste.

I keep hearing of all you were given for La. Does this inc;ude for no cutting of Medicare and all other senior citizen benefits. If not we are very disappointed you would not think of us.

Louisiana is a state, not a town. Mississippi was also hit hard, had little of the news coverage that New Orleans received and recovered nicely without having to sell any votes to Obama’s “buy-partisan” imposed health care bill.

The government has been providing free health care to millions of Americans for many years, they’re called soldiers and their dependents….I don’t understand how we can accept 20% of every dollar we earn to go to our defense budget in taxes and be so objectionable to providing health care for our citizens. We’ve given/forgiven billions of dollars to other countries and yet we whine about health care? Where is the sanity in this? 20%!! It translates to 900 billion and that doesn’t even count when we put our weapons and soldiers in action!

have we forgotten that government money is ours and we pay them and their insurance and health benefits. they do not want to give up their paychecks, lifestyle, benefits all which we pay for but our president wants us to lose everything we worked so hard to obtain. while michele is shopping at chanel we will be at discount stores while working our asses off to pay her and obama and his administrations bills. are we that stupid or that mesmorized by obama just like the germans were with hitler’s promises. cant believe i was so stupid as to falling for his carisma. not anymore!!!!!!!!!

i think it is a national shame that we have the type of health care system that excludes many, and causes even more to loose all they have. no other country has this .no other would tolerate it.the fact that our leaders have to be bribed to vote for it explains why we have allowed it to exist for so long. i dont know who is worse, the republicans who never want health care to be accessable to all, the democrats who have to be bribed to support it, or the system that allows for this type of behavior.

You know what… I’d rather pay $100 for a public-option health care insurance and slightly higher taxes than $500/month to private insurance so that I can contribute to the CEO’s $20 million a year bonus, only to have them cancel my policy when I get sick, after paying thousands and thousands of dollars in premiums over the years. It’s not like those private insurers don’t already “socialize” medical care for us… anyone think that a 3-hour ER visit actually costs $1000? No, it’s your visit plus the visits of other uninsured people who can’t afford it and can’t get insurance because of “pre-existing conditions”.
We need health care reform. Diseases, like fire and crime, can spread and they affect our economy and our ability to be a productive, capitalist society. If the Republicans would like to suggest how we can reform health care, then please make suggestions. It doesn’t matter if we have a public option or not, as long as health care is accessible and affordable to everyone. I haven’t heard any ideas yet, just a lot of noise and no substance.

“Congratulations on making the list Mary”-enigmaforever
She doesn’t personally get the money. It goes to the state. That she’s representing. It seems to me she’s doing a fine job for the people who elected her.

If you sell your vote you are in point of fact, corrupt. If you are corrupt you should resign. It is that simple.

Unless you are a complete Idiot, or Democrat, you should understand that any bill that you have to BRIBE members of your own party to support. Mary Landrieu from Louisiana and the Senator from Nebraska are just common criminals. Maybe they weren’t holding a gun during the robbery, but certainly weren’t acting honorably. We should get rid of EVERY congress and senate member that voted FOR this health care BS and get someone in that will pay attention to what the taxpayer majority wants. Taxpayer being defined by those who actually work and pay in taxes rather then those who have made a living leaching out money from the system.

What with section 2006 written only
in lawyer terms, no wonder they can’t
get the Republicans to go for it—
they can’t understand it.

New Orleans Mayor Nagin and Louisiana ex-governor Blanco showed how total corruption on the local level and FEMA delays ruined a city thats 18 feet below sea level . A catastrophe waiting for Mother nature to strike.
Apparently Cedar Rapids, Galveston, Greensberg, and Mobile had intelligent elected officials to get them thru their disasters unlike like that coward in New Orleans Mayor Nagin who ran to higher ground in Baton Rouge while his city sunk.

Well lets see we would not have Americans that are unemployed sitting here worring about the unemployment benifits were runnig out if the Dem congress had not been wasting our tax dollars working on Obama care that over 75% of Americans dont wont they should of been worring about jobs(correct me if Im wrong but wasnt the stim suppossed to help with that?instead it helped the people that caused these problems to get million dollar bonus and now here we go again Aig just gave out 168 million in bonuses and needs another bailout,Fannie and Freddie want more but yet only 166,000 people were helped with theie mortages.We are letting these crooks Bankrupt this country.America was built on hard work,honest people,everyone that is in a high position in the WH has either not paid taxes,or broke some kind of laws,look at Rangle he is a theif in charge of our money how stupid is that and what is even more disturbing is the dems think that is ok.How many of the 30 million the dems want to insure are Americans??I dont know about you but Im not paying for deadbeats,or Illegals Im not taking away from my family.wake up American

I wonder if any members of congress has stopped to think that there are a whole of people that don”t go to the doctors for healing. A lot of religions belive in super natural healing and alternative medicne. If congress forces everyone to pay for a health insurance, I feel that this goes aginst my freedom of religion. Why should I be forced to pay for something that I will never use.

Killing healthcare for ALL Americans, will kill Americans.
More American men, women–and yes, America’s children, die every year in our nation, from nothing more than unaffordable health care, than all those whom died on 9/11.
How are the lives of these innocent Amercians, whom have suffered from treatable illness, any less valuable then those whom died by the hands of a terrorist?
How much IS the life of an American man, woman or child worth, these days? Do we value the lives of our uninsured and underinsured, even less than the terrorists do?
Health care–and the lack thereof, is America’s Holocaust. Just as the Germans ignored the suffering of WWII, so do everyday Americans turn their backs on the real and genuine suffering going on, right in their own village’s, townships and cities. Right in their own neighborhoods, in their own families, perhaps.
This isn’t about money, it isn’t about too much government, it’s about human life. It’s about real human beings–from infants to the elderly, suffering needlessly from pain and sickness, because they lack the funds for expensive medicines and doctor’s or dental co-pays. Or, there simply aren’t enough “cheap” doctors or dentists or opticians, to go around…in some communiities, there’s no option for health care at all.
Why do some Americans get to live with private health care, and other die, with little or no health care?
Greed? Selfishness? Where’s the so-called “Christian” right-to-life movement, when it comes to health care? Why aren’t Christians marching on Washington D.C., to save millions of lives–including the lives of already born babies?
The battle over health care in America is being watched by millions all over the world–and if you read the response of those millions, most of whom in Western Europe, have national health care…they are appalled and disgusted.
I’m ashamed and disgusted. There’s no “United” states as long as those with health care continue to ignore the suffering of those without.
What the heck good is worrying about obesity or smoking, when over 45 million human beings can’t afford antibiotics or other basic medicine?
No one in America should become homeless, because they, their child or a spouse has contracted a serious illness or injury—yet they do, by the tens of thousands, every year in this country. This is the ONLY “demoractic” western nation that allows this to happen.
This is the ONLY western democratic nation where people quite literally have to choose between eating and buying medicine.
This is the ONLY western democratic nation, that allows employers force workers to work without sick pay or health insurance.
It’s a Holocuast, happening right under our noses, a national disease of greed and politics being played out under our noses, at a cost of millions of innocent American lives.
American pride? Where?

It’s common knowledge that Hurricane Katrina devastated the state, destroying homes, livelihoods and entire communities. But in the wake of Katrina, millions of dollars flooded into the state, in insurance payments, aid and money for new construction and repairs. Although thousands of people were, and are, still suffering from Katrina’s impact, on paper it looked like the state had gained millions of dollars. On paper, incomes went up by 40%. Yes, some people, mainly those in engineering and construction, did well out of the unfortunate building boom, but in reality, thousands had lost their jobs, their homes and their savings. That sort of thing isn’t accounted for in income calculations.
The result was that because of this perceived increase in income, the funding formula compels the federal government to cut it’s Medicaid funding to Louisiana. (The federal calculations are done on a three year rolling average, so there’s a lag time between the post-Katrina income spike, which continued for some time, and the changes to federal funding.) The state government, already stretched from all the other post-Katrina demands on spending – repairing roads, schools, basic infrastructure – is looking at paying far more than it’s historic share of Medicaid payments.

Hello to all of you, I think that you all are speaking without thinking. You all know someone or is related to someone who will benefit from what Mary did and or the legislation or both, don’t let the republicans shoot you alot of crap! Mary did a good thing for her state. She alway looks out for us. I work everyday and I have all kinds of insurance. I am glad other people that need it will be glad to have it. Read up on insurance in France, the best in the world, England, Germany and Canada. And then read up on what the president is trying to do for all of the working class citizens and the poor of this country. We deserve a break. The people that will be taxed 2.4 percent will not even miss that little bit of money. So learn the facts and stop shooting down the deal because a black president made it. Love you. A Realist

what a farce, this bill needed outright bribes to pass. That stupid Stupek or what ever the fool from mi. name is, sold his vote cheap. he could have stopped it. he sold out for nothing for his state, and no legal deal on abortion.

T is full of it. Forbes had an article on the 5 worst and best states in the country that run on red ink. Wouldnt you know the 5 reddest ink states were solid blue or blue leaning and the 5 non reddest ink states were solid red or red leaning and to top it off the state with the worst red ink was….. you guessed it Illinois our illustrious POTUS’s own home state. Looks like hes running the country like Illinois was and still is being run. Dont believe me then look it up !!

Healthcare reform – Yes.
Gov run healthcare – No.
This is a disgrace how this bill was passed.
VAT tax will be inevitable.
The voice of the people is lost.
what Liberty tree?

This is so typical: deceptive, corrupt, disgusting.
Reid, et. al., should be ashamed.

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